Patents by Inventor Scott Thomas Droste

Scott Thomas Droste has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11864050
    Abstract: A system includes a user equipment (UE) traveling at least at a predetermined velocity. The UE is in RRC_INACTIVE state since time T. The system further includes at least a first base station and a second base station. The first base station receives an RRC_INACTIVE state message from the UE. The RRC_INACTIVE state message includes a location and a velocity of the UE, and a time-lapse, which is an elapsed duration since T. In response to a paging message from a core network, the first base station predicts a location of the UE. In response to the UE being within range of the first base station, the first base station sends the paging message to the UE. In response to the UE being within range of the second base station, the first base station sends a request to the second base station to send the paging message to the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Naga Siva Vikas Vemuri, Andrew J. MacDonald, Charles A. Everhart, Scott Thomas Droste, Ashhad Mohammed
  • Publication number: 20230039800
    Abstract: A system includes a user equipment (UE) traveling at least at a predetermined velocity. The UE is in RRC_INACTIVE state since time T. The system further includes at least a first base station and a second base station. The first base station receives an RRC_INACTIVE state message from the UE. The RRC_INACTIVE state message includes a location and a velocity of the UE, and a time-lapse, which is an elapsed duration since T. In response to a paging message from a core network, the first base station predicts a location of the UE. In response to the UE being within range of the first base station, the first base station sends the paging message to the UE. In response to the UE being within range of the second base station, the first base station sends a request to the second base station to send the paging message to the UE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Venkata Naga Siva Vikas Vemuri, Andrew J. MacDonald, Charles A. Everhart, Scott Thomas Droste, Ashhad Mohammed
  • Patent number: 11570594
    Abstract: A method of facilitating on-demand wireless connectivity and data pooling with a vehicle platoon. The method includes detecting a potential host vehicle within a predetermined radius from the requesting vehicle; sending a request message to the potential host vehicle requesting to join the potential host vehicle in a vehicle platoon and to execute an application (APP) by utilizing the vehicle platoon's mobile edge computing (MEC) capabilities; sending a reply message by the host vehicle to join the potential host vehicle in the vehicle platoon; joining the potential host vehicle, by the requesting vehicle, in the vehicle platoon; and wirelessly transmitting to the potential host vehicle in the utilization of the host vehicle's MEC capabilities by pooling the APP data. The vehicle platoon is configured with an advance driver assisted system (ADAS) wireless communications, and MEC capabilities. A MEC module is disposed in at least one of the platoon vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Venkata Naga Siva Vikas Vemuri, Andrew J. MacDonald, Scott Thomas Droste, Ashhad Mohammed, Charles A. Everhart
  • Publication number: 20220386094
    Abstract: A method of facilitating on-demand wireless connectivity and data pooling with a vehicle platoon. The method includes detecting a potential host vehicle within a predetermined radius from the requesting vehicle; sending a request message to the potential host vehicle requesting to join the potential host vehicle in a vehicle platoon and to execute an application (APP) by utilizing the vehicle platoon's mobile edge computing (MEC) capabilities; sending a reply message by the host vehicle to join the potential host vehicle in the vehicle platoon; joining the potential host vehicle, by the requesting vehicle, in the vehicle platoon; and wirelessly transmitting to the potential host vehicle in the utilization of the host vehicle's MEC capabilities by pooling the APP data. The vehicle platoon is configured with an advance driver assisted system (ADAS) wireless communications, and MEC capabilities. A MEC module is disposed in at least one of the platoon vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Venkata Naga Siva Vikas Vemuri, Andrew J. MacDonald, Scott Thomas Droste, Ashhad Mohammed, Charles A. Everhart
  • Patent number: 5842130
    Abstract: The method operates in a wireless communication system, and includes receiving at a first base station having a first location, a widebeam signal from a first mobile communication unit having a second location; measuring, by the first base station, a characteristic of the received widebeam signal to form a first widebeam characteristic; receiving the widebeam signal at a second base station having a third location; measuring, by the second base station, the characteristic of the received widebeam signal to form a second widebeam characteristic; receiving, at the first base station, a narrowbeam signal from the first mobile communication unit; measuring, by the first base station, a characteristic of the received narrowbeam signal to form a first narrowbeam characteristic; receiving the narrowbeam signal at the second base station; measuring, by the second base station, the characteristic of the received narrowbeam signal to form a second narrowbeam characteristic; comparing the first widebeam characteristic a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Motorola, Inc.
    Inventors: Valentin Oprescu-Surcobe, Scott Thomas Droste, Brian Chen